Research shows importance of coastal habitats. Credit: Swansea University
New research by Swansea University is helping to understand the importance of sensitive coastal habitats, in Wales and the UK, for supporting fisheries.
The research has been assessing the fish communities and their age ranges in different habitats around Wales.
Studies were undertaken in West and North Wales. Credit: Swansea University
Studies were conducted around the coast of Pembrokeshire and the Llyn Penninsula and were co-funded by the Welsh Government Ecosystem Resilience and Diversity Fund and the ERDF funded SEACAMS project.
Mr Tiley's photographs feature scenes across Wales starting with the Second Severn Crossing Credit: Roger TileyA view from the Dee Estuary in North Wales Credit: Roger Tiley
Wales' industrial coast-scape comes under the spotlight in a new touring exhibition.
Photographer Roger Tiley was commissioned by the Arts Council of Wales to carry out the work, which took a year to produce.
The exhibition features photographs from various locations from the Severn Bridge to the Dee Estuary.
'The Manufactured Coast-scape' tour starts at the Cynon Valley Museum & Art Gallery on Saturday.
Plans for so called marine conservation zones around the coast of Wales have faced fresh criticism. People whose living depends on the sea or tourism fear it could seriously harm their livelihoods.
Ten sites have been proposed from Puffin Island on the eastern tip of Anglesey, along the Lleyn Peninsula, down Cardigan Bay to Dale and Skomer in Pembrokeshire. But no more than three or four are expected to be agreed by the Welsh Government by 2014.
